When comparing Tor Browser vs Edge, the Slant community recommends Tor Browser for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop web browsers?”Tor Browser is ranked 5th while Edge is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Tor Browser is:

If you follow their instructions religiously, Tor is the nec plus ultra in terms of safety and privacy. For the time being at least.

Pros

Pro

Tor sets the standard for safe and private browsing

If you follow their instructions religiously, Tor is the nec plus ultra in terms of safety and privacy. For the time being at least.

Pro

Portable

Can be installed and run on a portable device such as a USB stick.

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Access hidden .onion sites

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Relatively fast

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Supports web notes (annotations, drawing and highlighting)

Microsoft Edge supports annotations, drawing and highlighting that can allow users to add annotations into the website as a reference, highlight the notes on the website and also draw anything on the website.

Pro

Reading mode

Reading mode is a feature that can allow users to read an article in a reader mode, removing distractive elements such as ads and other elements, leaving only the main article and images, similar to Safari's reader mode and Firefox's recent addition of Reader View.

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No longer support legacy elements from Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge drops supports of legacy elements that are previously available in Internet Explorer such as ActiveX, Browsers Helper Objects (BHOS) and VBScript in favor with JavaScript and HTML5.

Pro

Reading list

Reading list is a read-it-later feature that can allow users to add article to this section and read the article later on similar to Pocket and Safari's Reading List

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Better performance

The performance of Microsoft Edge not just outperforms Microsoft's previous browser known as Internet Explorer, but due to the better technologies used, it also performs faster than other browsers such as Chrome.

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Works with Windows Defender - real time protection.

Edge has real-time protection from malicious websites and identity thefts by Windows Defender.

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Comes with Cortana

Cortana is a personal assistant and AI by Microsoft inside the Edge browser that can allow users to perform recommendation search, hints, highlights, answers and assistant based on the highlighted keywords user wish to perform and Cortana will give the results on the right side of the sidebar.

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Stacked Tabs

With the new Creators Update, tabs can now be stacked for later use.

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Gorgeous new tab page

Users who launch a new tab will see a Google Now-like page where it shows the latest news, sports scores, weather, recommended apps, most visited sites, etc.

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Very efficient

Less battery draining than any other browser.

Cons

Con

Extremely slow

Con

Windows 10 only

Edge is exclusively available on Microsoft Windows 10.

Con

Proprietary

While Microsoft Edge is currently available for Windows 10 without additional monetary charge (free as in price), it is currently not free as in freedom (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications) and is therefore neither free nor open-source software.

Con

Poor HTML5 support

Edge is considerably worse at rendering pages than Chrome or Firefox, or other leading competitors, and often encounters rendering issues where it doesn't render the page as the web designer expects.